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figure showing the signs of the Zodiac, and beside it is printed the following rhyme:
War begets Poverty.
Poverty Peace:
Peace maketh Riches flow,
(Fate ne'er doth cease:)
Riches produceth pride,
Pride is War's ground,
War begets Poverty, &c.
(The World) goes round.
Poverty Peace:
Peace maketh Riches flow,
(Fate ne'er doth cease:)
Riches produceth pride,
Pride is War's ground,
War begets Poverty, &c.
(The World) goes round.
Beneath the figure and the rhyme is put:
Omnium rerum Vicissitudo: All things change.
In the right hand corner is another figure with another rhyme.
The contraction Ephem. in Swift's note stands for Ephemeris or Ephemerides, that is, almanack. The Opt. Edit. to which he refers, is, presumably, that for the current year.
It may be mentioned that a rhyme similar to that just given is to be found in FitzGerald's Polonius, under the heading War:
War begets Poverty—Poverty,
Peace Peace begets Riches—Fate will not cease
Riches beget Pride—Pride is War's ground
War begets Poverty—and so the world goes round.
Old Saw.
Peace Peace begets Riches—Fate will not cease
Riches beget Pride—Pride is War's ground
War begets Poverty—and so the world goes round.
Old Saw.
In his Essay on Poetry (T. iii. 438) Temple remarks that 'plenty begets wantonness and pride.'
With the general sentiment of the opening of the Battle one may compare the following from Gulliver's Travels,
